{"id":237,"date":"2012-08-08T00:09:20","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T22:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogg.uit.no\/llu001\/?page_id=237"},"modified":"2012-08-08T00:09:20","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T22:09:20","slug":"double-edged-angel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogg.uit.no\/llu001\/translations\/double-edged-angel\/","title":{"rendered":"Double Edged Angel"},"content":{"rendered":"

From\u00a0Tveegget engel (Doubl Edged Angel)<\/em><\/strong>1988<\/strong><\/p>\n

translated by Susan Schwartz Senstad and the writer<\/p>\n

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I DRIVE, QUEEN OF ICE<\/p>\n

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I drive, Queen of Ice, through winter’s ocean<\/p>\n

behind borrowed reindeer across frozen waves<\/p>\n

heaven’s darkness streaming like a starry mane.<\/p>\n

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Swords of northern lights are drawn before light\u2019s<\/p>\n

battle for the love of darkness.\u00a0\u00a0The sleigh<\/p>\n

flees from winter\u2019s heart, cold and paralyzing.<\/p>\n

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I hear the King of Winter is enraged:<\/p>\n

He\u2019s gnawing the icicles off stars and houses<\/p>\n

gashing heaven\u2019s frost with mountain peaks<\/p>\n

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he\u2019s grinding snow breasts between icy teeth<\/p>\n

hounding the lust of darkness with a biting whip,<\/p>\n

and I am drunk with ice, my cheeks aflame<\/p>\n

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with fierce winter fever as spiky stars stab out<\/p>\n

through my flesh and crystalline minerals sweat<\/p>\n

from the depths beneath my body\u2019s skin and hair<\/p>\n

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where light awaits naked as a bridegroom,<\/p>\n

until darkness surrenders altogether, and<\/p>\n

day arises with its beaming lucid mind.<\/p>\n

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MY REAL DAUGHTER<\/p>\n

WORLD YOUNG<\/p>\n

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She made a garland of her hair for the feast<\/p>\n

and threw her tears to the wolves<\/p>\n

She forged her sword-soul boyish<\/p>\n

and traded feathers with time\u2019s leaping heaven<\/p>\n

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She raced ahead to hunt the storms<\/p>\n

and passionately kissed the skin of snow<\/p>\n

She would fly with all the wild birds<\/p>\n

animals and shadows, freely<\/p>\n

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to the light of wolves’ jaws, with polar bears\u2019 pawprints<\/p>\n

stamped into her memory<\/p>\n

She wanted to win, as if her life were youthful<\/p>\n

and blond and fresh and soft as stone<\/p>\n

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She stepped androgynously across the borders<\/p>\n

toward the distinctly open inner land of ice<\/p>\n

She would be among those who dive<\/p>\n

she would carry death like a precious stone<\/p>\n

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She would live spreadeagled across life<\/p>\n

be a fine-tuned instrument<\/p>\n

against the world\u2019s tortured, aging reason<\/p>\n

She wished to torment cruelty<\/p>\n

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with her strong and mercy-glowing laughter<\/p>\n

She would salvage joy<\/p>\n

from that powerful despair<\/p>\n

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HERE<\/p>\n

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The light surfs breakers of time<\/p>\n

the haze of heat hangs blue clouds<\/p>\n

in blue, let the years like a riddle<\/p>\n

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riddle themselves, I’ve forgotten<\/p>\n

and remembered enough, now I will<\/p>\n

be here in this where I am<\/p>\n

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Each morning awakens<\/p>\n

new vivid days – fine!<\/p>\n

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